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Eschede Railway Station, Eschede, Germany / by Andrew Thomson and Madeleine Swain.
- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Thomson, Andrew, producer.
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Infamous places ; 47
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Industrial design.
- Offshore oil industry--Accidents--North Sea.
- Offshore oil industry.
- Railroad accidents--Germany--Eschede.
- Railroad accidents.
- Genre:
- Documentary.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (6 min.).
- Other Title:
- The Sea Gem, off coast of Lincolnshire, England, UK
- Place of Publication:
- Geelong, Australia : World Wide Entertainment, 2007.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Original language in English.
- Summary:
- German Train Crash: The worst high-speed train accident in the world to date took place here, near the village of Eschede in the Lower Saxony region of Germany. It involved an intercity express, or ice train named the Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen, which was travelling between Munich and Hamburg on the morning of the 3rd of June 1998. Having made a scheduled stop at Hanover, it was about six kilometers south of Eschede when a wheel rim broke and penetrated the floor of the first carriage. A passenger noticed the large piece of metal sticking up through the floor, but instead of pulling the emergency brake immediately he alerted the train conductor. Sea Gem: This is the North Sea, about 67 kilometers off the coast of Lincolnshire in England's north east. It was the site of the first ever British offshore oil rig, the sea gem, a 5600-ton steel barge converted into a rig by British Petroleum in 1964. It consisted of a helipad, living quarters for 34 workers and 10 steel legs that could raise the rig 15 meters above the ocean. On the 27th of December 1965, the sea gem collapsed, as it was being lowered into the water in preparation for its move to another site, about two nautical miles away. A subsequent public inquiry found that metal fatigue had caused two of the legs to crumple.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed Sept. 1, 2011).
- Previously published as DVD.
- OCLC:
- 767805979
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